Charlie; I'll be surprised if you actually run into major problems with the boss. Soon after I started my government job as a network administrator, I had the "Dubious" pleasure of telling my boss that our NT4.0 servers were without licenses, except for the original 5 that comes with each CD. To get us up to par would have cost us 7 or 8 thousand.
Seems the previous NetAdmin hadn't been an actual Netadmin at all. He was a programmer, and new little or nothing about this stuff ( His comment, not mine!). To make a long story short, this problem was the incentive for a complete change of the old servers and everything went to Linux, with the exception of 1 server which ran a proprietary database. As of now, I've got a total of 13 servers on Mandrake Prosuite 8.2, 16 LTSP terminals, and 40 workstations on Mandrake 8.2, 3 SNF Firewalls, and 5 Windows 2000 workstations for the graphics staff. The biggest problem I have is the slight embarrassment I feel when my MCSE buddies talk about re-booting their servers to prevent crashes, and I mention that mine have been up and running almost non-stop for a year and a half, with the exception of a couple of power failures, and regular hardware updates. My guess is that you'll do fine. Give 'em hell Charlie! Personally, I've been sleeping a lot better ever since! Lanman -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Charlie M. Sent: September 24, 2002 4:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'm getting pretty p'o'd off with... On Tuesday 24 September 2002 12:52 pm, Franki wrote: > I got lucky,,, my position has some perks, and I use all of them to > proclaim the coolness of linux.. Lucky you. I don't have a 'position' per se. I'm just a dilettante/rabble rouser that gets weird calls late at night from various friends that seem to think I may have some useful knowledge or skill. Are they ever mistaken! ;-) > > My boss knows I am a nut for it, and HE asked me if I could replace all > their windows/office machines, with linux variants.. It would seem your boss is a very open minded person. One person/company at a time is a fantastic way to build some momentum. > > So I am starting with one machine, see if I can make it as useful, and if > they are happy with the result, then we can put it on all of them... very > cool :-) I'll wish you luck Frank; even though you seem to have a good grasp on what you're doing. In any case it's always helpful to be lucky when you can't be good. Better still to be both though. <grin> > > The more business and home users we initiate to linux, the harder it will > be for M$ to use paladium to reinforce their monopoly.. (and collect info > from "users") I agree so much my head hurts! Or maybe it was the shout when I read it. > > rgds > > Frank <snip 'n' edit the subject cause Air New Zealand didn't like some of the words Heather chose, and bounced it back at me.Mail Marshall. hmmmm> -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.
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